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The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1887-06-23
Tho Shoppers and the salesladies.

The State street war is q social war, and
when we seek out its causes and analyZe
its character we find that it may be ex-
planned quite nationally. Everybody likes
to feel that he is superior to somebody
else, and have an opportunity to show it.
This opportunity comes to q man in divers
ways. He can lord it over his employees,
or his subordinates; he may patronize his
barber, or the cigar dealer, or the news
boy. But few such opportunities come to
the woman. She daren't go it too strong
with her servants for fear they'll leave
her. Besides, good many women don't
keep servants, and among them may be
found many of those who fiercely lead the
assaulting columns in the dry goods
stores. .... ~. .. 81.
1t is in State street that every woman
finds all opportunity to feel and enjoy and
give outward evidence of a sense OF superb
GRITTY to somcb ody else. The average
shopper, no mat ter what her station or
circumstances, thinks herself several
notches above tho saleswoman. She
shows that she thinks SO, too, and there
comes the trouble. The clerks, feeling
themselves at least the equal of those
whom they arc serving, resent either
patronizing or peremptory ordering about.
They have pride, too and it rises up and
makes them beligerent. The shopper,
trying to maintain the consciousness of
superiority which, in fact, does not exist,
and which she isn't quite sure of herself,
is naturally over suspicious and quick to
complain of alleged inattention and impu-
dence. The clerk, allowing herself to fall
into the habit Of resenting the airs of her
customers, becomes chemically waspish
and quick tempered, and fails to discrim-
ate between women who do want to i'm
pose or her and those who do not. This,
l think, is why we have o war on State
street.-Miss MuiIit in Chicago Herald.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1887-06-23
Curious Phase of the Street.

The other day met literary woman
OF my acquaintance in the street. She
carried all expression by no means in con-
sonance with the gay spring weather, and
asked her what allied her. 81 am rrl-
ined," she said. This was rather start
ling statement, but sifted it into mean
ing that she had lost some $500 or 5000,
that she had saved up, in Wall street
speculation. 1t was all the money she
had in the world, and she had saved it
only by dint of the most stringent econ
omy and rigid self denial. Her story illus
trates one curious phase of the business
of the street
She has friend, who is the wife of o
quite well-to do-man. This friend has
for some time been riskng her pin money
on margins. Her example finally infected
duction to her broker. This Mrs 2 re-
fused.
eff I lose my money!" she said, IT can
afford it; but you cannot. I do not want
to reproach myself for any trouble that
might come to YOU" In conversation
with her broker shortly afterward Mrs. z
told this story as illustrating the madness
of a poor woman. The broker called on
Mrs. x, introduced himself Us having been
sent by Mrs. q, got the poor story writer's
cash and that was the end of it. Within
a week it had been wiped out.
This sort of thing is going On constantly
The agent of certain brokers circulate
among women in New York, gathering in
margins on sure things, whose certainty
is always that of loss to the INVESTOR
Alfred Trumble in New York News.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1887-06-23
The Irrepressihle Office Boy.

When the telephone was introduced
into the offices of Christendom o great
many men sent away their Office boys and
fancied that they could get on without
them. But the office boys came back.
Like truth crushed to earth they rose
again and asserted their indispensable
value. The office boy knows that he is
an autocrat, and while he may never pre-
sumo upon his position outwardly, he
carries the signs of authority and Of
power around with him. He is tardy,
he is lazy, he Is forgetful, but he looks
calmly into the eyes of his reproving en-
ployer without fiinching. He will stay
forty-five minutes on ten minutes
errand and bob up sercnely without
thought Of an apology. If on his return
his superior officer plucks up courage to
inquire if he has had pleasant vacation,
he will stare and reply, "What, sir?n
with a well cultivated stupidity. If an
Office boy could be patented who would
be warranted to take in, or at least smile
at, all of his masters jokes, this world of
toll and trouble would be SUMMER spot.
Boston Advertiser.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1887-06-23
The Young woman's Exacticn.

1t was in the horse car, that place in
which the experiences are varied enough
to make q man cosmopolitan if he will
study them. Two Ygirls were talking of
what they read.
"Oh, I choose novel easily enough"
one said. 81 go to the circulating library
and look at the last chapters. If I find
the rain softly and sadly dropping over
one or two lonely graves 1 don't take it,
but II the morning sun Is glimmering
over bridal robes of white satin know
it's all right, and take it and start to
buy caramels while read it.
Novelists are respectfully reminded that
the remark contains an important truth
which they will do well to bear in mind if
they wish to reach that constituency of
young women who are said to arbitrate
upon the fate of American fiction. There
is often more in the last chapter-which is
usually read pretty early in the book-to
settle the fate CT novel than in all the
rest Of the volume, and he who aims to be
popular will make this, at least, bright
and MISUNDERSTANDING Companion.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1887-06-23

nienuous toll, put to the sacrifice OF sun
light and the pure air of heaven, and
cheerfully faces the risk Of being himself
among the percentage of miners who
every year get killed, something like one
in thirty-eight. We owe more to the
miner than we care to acknowledge.
On the other hand, the criminal for
feits ordinary sympathy The worst class,
criminals who have just unfortunately
lodged the hangman, society pronounces
unfit to associate again with the commu-
nifty for long time, if ever, |. e., society
says they are unfit to live in the world.
Yet we exalt these malefactors to the
position of state pensioners, we give them
palatial residences, a costly staff of iv-
cried servants, with all the resources of
medical and sanitary science to proiong
their precious lives 10 the last possible
gasp-all at the expense of the honest,
law abiding, virtuous taxpayer. And the
coal getter? Well, we condemn him to
Punishment into the bowels of the earth,
with the tolerably sure and certain hope
of an 'taccidentalr explosion, with loss of
life or limb, and the probable pauperiza-
ton of Widows and orphans to follow. 2
Suppose, by way of experimental re-
form, our all wise legislature were to Sc
lect the life sentence conyicts of the most
worthless and repulsive type, and single
out also the most dungeons mines. Sup
pose they were to place the former in the
latter, say, for ten years. daily labor.
If, in the mysterious workings of Proyi~
dence, IN explosion were to bereave us of
these our erring brethren-well, we
should rejoice that the calamity bad not
ended the lives of our honest, industrious
miners, who raise their families as good
citizens. On the other hand, the saving
in cost of prisons would 60 far to- insure
the safety of our worthy miners by pro-
viding better preventives of accidents. "
Only few years ago boat load of con-
victs were upset and drowned on North
Carolina river. 1t was sad, very, though
we have not heard of any serious damage
to society or the constitution in conse-
quence.-Geoffrey Quarles in New York
POST
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1887-06-23
She Knew the Answers,

A professor in q certain musical college
once told me Of @ pupil who attended his
lectures-a young woman from some re-
mote place like Seattle or Los Angeles,
who attracted his attention by her extreme
devotion to her work, her regularity-in
fact, by all that goes to make pupil solid
with the faculty. Moreover, she was
beautiful as the day, with large and stat
uesque beauty, as Of a strong, full ma
ture, serene, calm and undisturbed. But
alas! when examinations came and papers
were handed in hers was found to be SIM
ply impossible. 1t was evident that be-
hind that Juno like brow there were no
brains. In fact, such paper was never
seen before; even the spelling was ludi-
crous, while grammar and music were
equally injured and outraged in every
line. Tears could not move my stern
friend, and his report was-''not passed"
But it was intimated to him that there
were reasons why it was absolutely essen
tial that the pupil should graduate, while
her knowledge might be acquired after
ward. Accordingly she applied for re-
examination, and the questions were then
something like this: 1. Is not the SYM
phony tho highest form of purely musical
expression? 9. Was not Berlioz remarka-
bic for his mastery Of ingenious orchestral
effects? 3. Is not Bach called the father
of modern music? "And to my astonish-
ment and qualification, said the professor
gravely, 'to every one of these puzzling
questions she answered with great perspi-
cacity, YES and passed triumphantly-
average mark in my class, 100 Per cent"
-Harper's Weekly. Fl"
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1887-06-23
The 1rishman and His Potato.

Why is the potato so much grown and
consumed in Ireland? 1t is because potato
growing and potato eating form the sim
plest process by which the Irish tenant
can keep body and soul together. He
turns up his land, plants it, waits four or
five months and then digs the crop. The
product of these operations is his sus-
tenance. 1t has not, like cattle or wheat
or any of the higher products of farming,
to be turned into money before it can be
made available for his own use.
The complex transactions by which pro-
6ucers and consumers in civilized society
provide for the wants of others and secure
the satisfaction Of their own do not enter
into the economies of the Irish peasant
He sticks his potato into the ground, and
in due time lie gathers the harvest. Feeling
hungry, he goes to his store, deals himself
out enough potatoes for meal, claps them
into u pot, eats them and is content. The
substitution of oats for the potato would
place him one degree higher in the scale of
agricultural progress by processes which
need not be described. We should then
get the Irish tenant past the stage at
which man lives from hand to mouth on
the free yield of nature into the stage at
which agriculture becomes an industry,
providing him by exchange or sale not
only with mere sustenance, but with COM
forts of which he has hitherto had no ex-
pericnce.-Industrial Ireland
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1887-06-23

1t is remarkable fact that in London
O jump should have been made in almost
single bound from the old fashioned
English inn, with its dark, lily ventilated,
cramped and uncomfortable Railways and
bedrooms, to such hotel as the Metrop-
ole, with its 500 high and we'll lighted
rooms, its richly furnished saloons, and
all the other beauties and advantages that
the most advanced modern architecture
can devise. No one can step into this
world renowned establishment without
an expression of wonder and delight.
The building alone, to say nothing of its
perfect arrangements, is now one Of the
institutions of London that must be seen
by every American traveller. Naturally
it has come to be the center of American
travel in London and majority Of its
guests is often made up of Americans.
No single hotel in Europe begins to ap-
proach the Metropole in popularity with
American travellers. 1t is also the favor
lite with the English public. It's superb
Whitehall rooms are the best Of their kind
in London. 1t was only few weeks ago
that the Prince Of Wales presided there
ut the seventy Fourth anniversary of tho
London Orphan asylum, when contribu-
tons reaching $25, 900 were handed in.
The Metropole is the princess favorite
hotel, for the reason that its beauty of
construction and interior decorations and
its advantages generally are inconparably
superior to those of any other hotel in
London.-New York World.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1887-06-23
WHAT MIGHT BE DONE.
"A Suggestion rs TO what Might BE Dol
With Long Time Convicts.

"A Suggestion as 60 What Might BE Done
With Long Time Convicts.
DR.. Seaman, late chief of staff Of the
Blackwell's Island hospital and peniten-
tiary, spoke upon the problem of convict
labor in his recent address before the
Medico-Legal society. He argues in favor
of the English system of employing long
sentence prisoners on great public works,
sue" as harbor and fortifcation making.
An effort is being made in another quar-
ter to Introduce transportation to Alaska.
But there is q third alternative, suggested
by some very commonplace facts, here
submitted for consideration.
Society is, perhaps unnecessarily, at
f1icted by having to bear two enormous
burdens, costly, demoralizing and oppres-
siye. These are ~ the maintenance OF
criminals, and ~ the maintenance OF
widows and orphans left destitute by
accidents. / mean, here particularly,
the families of miners killed by coalpit
explosions, which occur so frequently.
Now, the miner is probably the worthiest
working citizen in the commonwealth.
For our good he submits not only TO sre'
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1887-06-23
Work as a Medicine.

You have nothing to do-how easily
You yield to indisposition.
You have an engagement, you have an
article to write, q dress to make, field
to till, harvest to gather, horse to
groom, a store to open, and occupation of
some sort or other whose call is peremp-
tory and must be obeyed-what q stiffener
of nerve and muscles an engagement is.
How infinitely less prone one is to yield to
an indisposition, o pain or suggestion
Of idleness and ease.
Work is the best medicine,
Exercise is its right hand man. occu-
patton is what mankind needs, and Just
so soon as we retire from life we may be-
gin to prepare for death, for life is a quick
imitator, and will retire from us, acting
on the hint given, that we are weary Of
the burden and wish to shake it.-Joe
Howard's Letter.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1887-06-23
Color.

An we know Of color-what is its-its
causes and effects, is in connection with tba
wave theory Of light. As explained by this
theory color depends upon the number of
light waves reflected from any object inn
pinging upon the retina Of the eye. In red
there are about AZ, 900 waves to the inch, and
these win strike the eye at the rate of Al
millions Of millions Of pulsations per second
In violet there are 81, 900 waves to the inch
and 600 millions Of millions of pulsations per
second. The other colors have wavc lights
intermediate between these two.
Color does not, therefore, exist either in the
object or in the brain or mind of tho OBJ
server. 1t is an effect There can be no APP
pearance OF fire on desert island where
there is no eye within seeing distance. The
chemical process called combustion goes o..
but there is no appearance to the fs..se
when its light waves strike upon the fagSs4 :.
an eye. This is further illustrated
color blindness peculiar TO some peop:
cannot distinguish one color from ;se
The eye being imperfect the usual
not produced.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1887-06-23

some money ana great quanJ1Ty or otner
chattels from sympathetic friends. Others
of the Indians were remembered by their
friends also. 1t was an imposing spectacle
to see them sitting around the sides of the
wigwam, silent and dignifed. In one end
stood an aged man calling out the names
Of parties receiving presents, and in the
other end of the wigwam an aged woman
repeating his words in voice which added
solemnity to the occasion. EAST Ore
4onian a.si.h
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1887-06-23
A Valuable American Coin.

The most valuable of oh American coins
are two 1904 dollars, which arc in well
known collections. They are valued at
$4,000 each. 1t has been determined to
the satisfaction of numismatists that these
two dollars were not coined until 1928,
although they were struck from the orig
inal 1904 die. They were secretly made
although such procedure is penal
ofcnse-for some one high in influence
and authority who desired them for coin
collections. Herald.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1887-06-23
Faults of the Lon,lon Da,lv.

Some days, when feel too bright and
cheerful, / buy Daily telegraph. 1t
is good as a sort of mental ballast I
rarely go so far as to read it, but keep
it, as the Roman emperor kept the death
suggesting slave, to remind me that after
all this is a serious world. The other day
/ opened the immense sheet, and on the
Sahara called the leader page there
was only one head line. There
were 500 square inches of solid
reading matter, a desert of type
with that one solitary oasis of O heading
to tel what part of it was about, This is
enough to stagger any man. 1t Is quite
contrary to everything else that I know
of in the world. A chemist labels his
bottles. The names Of the strests ara
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1887-06-23

Sank Centre, Minnesota.
GATES & KELSEY,
Attorneys and Csunselors at Law
Woods Block, Main-st.
Sank Centre Minnesota.
T c. FOSTER,
ATTORNEY AT LAW
Offlce two doors east Citizens Bank, Main. ST.
Sank Centre, Minnesota.
n C. VAN CAMP,
ATTORNEY AND NOTARY PUBLIC.
Sank Centre, Minnesota.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1887-06-23
A Perfect Match.

In an English tramcar, few days ago,
a gentleman said to q young lady of his
acquaintance, in her teens, on seeing that
she had deep scientific book in her
hands:
''Why, you select very deep literature
for your reading l mad no idea you were
SO studious.
She answered.:
''Oh, is it deep book I did not know
what to get at the library, SO took this, as
the cover compared so beautifully with
my hat. Did you ever seq o more perfect
ratchsn--New York Sun.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1887-06-23

Much aid may be derived from the use of a
simple lever press, made on the principle Of a
lemon squeezer It requires two persons,
however, to manage this--one to hold the
material in the bag or cloth and the other to
apply the pressure. The cut here given shows
how the same press may be arranged to he
worked by one person. One of the halves Of
the press is hinged to piece of board two
feet long and fourteen inches wide, and set
upon q table with one end elevated in the
manner shown In the figure
Such press win be found especially con-
venient among housewives who make their
own jellies and wines, as with its aid the
juice may be pressed without either unduly
firing or staining the hands.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1887-06-23

a Camden bus, book has its title page, a
minister announces his text, and lecturer
gives the subject of his discourse. Idon't
have to go into train and ride mile OF
two to find out whether it is going my
direction or not. Yet London daily with
one or two exceptions asks you to wade
into q long editorial before you can tell
whether or not it is of the slightest pos
sible interest to you.-Luke Sharp in
Detroit Free Press.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1887-06-23
Devices in Floor COVERINGS.

Out Of a discarded carpet Of large sizo
enough that Is bright and clean can oftcn be
got to make square or rug for the center OF
the room; then the floor around can DO
stained with walnut or cherry stain. This
fashion of rug and stained floor Is in every
cool, refreshing, artistic appearance to the
room; 1t does away with the dust constantly
arising from an oil over carpet, for the rug
can be taken out of the house and beaten
some floors are too rough and poor to 10
stained. In that case take the good parts OF
the old carpet to cover around the sides of the
floor and buy for the center of the room one
Of the squares" that come for that purpose.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1887-06-23
BUSINESS CARDS.

DARTO Il BARTO,
ATTORNEYS AND COUNSElLORS.
Office in Bartos Block Thrd-st.
Sank Centre, Minnesota.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1887-06-23
To kill a dove is a sign Of death to Il
negroes of Louisiana.
~.ovcnrlng Bugs and Moths.

Floors when washed after CARPETS are taken
up should have turpentine poured into the
cracks and along the baseboards, and diluted
carbolic acid should be put in the water
the floor is washed with. Neither buf.
fnlo bugs nor moths will trouble the carpu
for one year. Shelves to cupboards and floors
to closets ought to be washed well I'm water
that has carbolic acid in it With these pre-
cautions there is no need Of carpets being
ruined By moths
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1887-06-23
Tho siwashes Remember Their Dead.

The Indians, about 200 strong, assembled
the other day on Mckay creek, near the
county road leading to Pilot rock, to COM
memorate the death of young Indian
named Barnhart, who had his feet frozen
off several winters ago and died from the
effects OF it about this time last year. a
wigwam about a hundred feet long was
crowded with the friends Of the deceased,
who offered up gifts to his memory, con-
sisting OF ponies, blankets, money, cloth
ing and other valuables. The mother of
young Barnhart, the deceased, received
twenty ponies, q large number Of blankets,
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1887-06-23
re Had No Key.

A well known mathematician who lives
in Macon, Ga, and who has published
series of arithmetics, recently received
letter from q teacher asking him to send
him key to the Third Grade Arithme-
tic. The mathematician wrote back:
''Dear sir: 1t has no key. 1t is stem
winder. New York Sun.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1887-06-23
pooa OId Fashioned Car. .

The old fashion of boiling coffee and clearing
1t with egg is still popular with some house
wives. The advantages of this method are
that the coffee is perfectly clear; peculiar
favor, very agreeable to many coffee drink
ers, is impaired by the egg, and when milk or
cream is added the coffee turns a rich yellow
color, very inviting and not seen in coffee
made without egg,
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1887-06-23
CHURCH DIRECTORY.

NEV. j. D.
Sunday Services at 70 30 A. NJ. and 7:30 p. NJ
sunday school at 1900 N. Young People
deeCng one hour before evening services
ruyer meeting Wednesday, evenings at 7:3o T.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1887-06-23
New and Dainty PILLOW shap,s.

Among new things In pillow shams are
white silk handkerchiefs of small size joined
together with antique insertion and trimmed
around with antique lace. Cream white, soft
pink, pale blue, or yellow handkerchiefs,
small in size and laid over Silesia lining,
are just now a pretty fashion in shams for
guest chambers. For every day use small
linen handkerchiefs Joined with Torchon and
edged with the same are received with great
favor, for they are not only pretty and in
expensive, but they do up charmingly.